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192251291Chicago: Olson Rug Company 1922. 8vo. 32 pp. Colour-illustrated throughout numerous black & white text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition of this lavishly illustrated and scarce Jazz Age flooring catalogue for the famed Chicago rug manufactuer. Found in 1874 by Walter E. Olson this beautiful catalogue includes a number of interior designs showing the rugs fitted into Arts & Crafts homes and Flapper Era homes with decor window treatments and furnishings. The Olson Rug Company was a pioneering recycling firm detailing how they used old carpets rugs and old clothing to produce velvety rugs which would rival in appearance and wearing high grade Wiltons and Axminsters. The Olson Company is perhaps best remembered for the Olson Park and Waterfall which was a popular local tourist attraction located outside the factory until sold to Marshall Field in 1965 which subsequently plowed the gardens under and created a parking lot. Olson Rug Company, paperback
20052090502113717533Not Available 2005. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1933180234.Gspiral_bound. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
131091Washington: Service Center for Teachers of History 1957-1961. Staplebound 77 31 39 39 22 20 24 32 18 22 28 25 45 22 46 22 25 48 21 24 56 30 29 19 21 30 77 22 37 18 26 40pp. Very good. Sold as one lot 32 of the first 40 issues. There is a previous owner's stamp on the bottom of the back cover of each volume. Sold as one lot. Contributors include Eugene N. Anderson Nineteenth Century Europe-Crisis and Contribution. No. 29 Keith B. Berwick The Federal Age 1789-1829; America in the Process of Becoming. No. 40 Ray Allen Billington The American Frontier. No. 8 Jerome Blum The European Peasantry from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century. No. 33 Marie Boas History of Science. No. 13 Hal Bridges Civil War and Reconstruction. No. 5 W. Burlie Brown United States History: A Bridge to the World of Ideas. No. 31 R.V. Burks Some Elements of East European History. No. 38 Harvey L. Carter The Far West in American History. No. 26 Mortimer Chambers Greek and Roman History. No. 11 Robert I. Crane The History of India; Its Study and Interpretation. No. 17 Roderic H. Davison The Near and Middle East: An Introduction to History and Bibliography. No. 24 Alexander de Conde New Interpretations in American Foreign Policy. No. 2 Margareta Faissler Key to the Past; Some History Books for Pre-College Readers. No. 1 Frank Freidel The New Deal in Historical Perspective. No. 25 Charles Dana Gibson The Colonial Period in Latin American History. No. 7 John D. Hicks Normalcy and Reaction 1921-1933; An Age of Disillusionment. No. 32 Stanley J. Idzerda The Background of the French Revolution. No. 21 Philip D. Jordan The Nature and Practice of State and Local History. No. 14 Eric E. Lampard Industrial Revolution; Interpretations and Perspectives. No. 4 Ernest R. May American Intervention: 1917 and 1941. No. 30 Henry Cord Meyer Five Images of Germany; Half a Century of American Views on German History. No. 27 Chase C. Mooney Civil Rights: Retrospect and Prospects. No. 37 Edmund S. Morgan The American Revolution; A Review of Changing Interpretations. No. 6 George E. Mowry The Progressive Movement 1900-1920: Recent Ideas and New Literature. No. 10 Charles F. Mullett The British Empire-Commonwealth: Its Themes and Character; A Plural Society in Evolution. No. 36 Charles Grier Sellers Jr. Jacksonian Democracy. No. 9 Otis A. Singletary The South in American History. No. 3 Harry R. Stevens The Middle West. No. 12 Paul L. Ward A Style of History for Beginners. No. 22 Henry R. Winkler Great Britain in the Twentieth Century. No. 28 C. Vann Woodward The Age of Reinterpretation. No. 35. History. Service Center for Teachers of History Paperback
1829507896Knight and Lacey London 1829. Card Covers. Very Good Condition. The Mechanics Magazine Issue No. 327 from 1829 showcased advancements in steam-powered transport and engineering. It featured the Patent Steam-Carriage by Sir James Anderson and W.H. James which aimed to replace horse-drawn carriages with steam propulsion carrying 24 passengers at 15 miles per hour during trials. It also highlighted Braithwaite and Ericsson's multi-tubular Steam-Engine Boiler which improved efficiency and reduced explosion risks contributing to steam locomotives and naval steam engines. This issue captured a pivotal moment in transportation history as inventors refined steam-powered vehicles for road and rail applications. 32 Pages with woodcuts. Genuine Original and Packed with Innovation! This weekly magazine isn't just a fragment of history it's a window into the cutting-edge advancements of the Victorian era! Since 1823 The Mechanics' Magazine has tackled revolutionary topics from printing presses to vapor baths hydrostatics and hydraulics. It dives into breakthrough safety measures preventing explosive contaminated air while exploring the mechanics of oxy-hydrogen blowpipes and self-laying rail carriages. Every page crackles with Victorian-era engineering brilliance capturing the relentless drive for invention that shaped the modern world! This is an exclusive standalone issue carefully separated from its original volume; authentic original and uniquely crafted. It is not a reprint or reproduction but a distinct piece in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 21 cms. Category: Mechanics' Magazine; New Arrivals; Special Interest. Knight and Lacey unknown
2025313867China: Games Workshop 12/13/2025. Hardcover. New. Games Workshop hardcover
197620827021146105477500 Yen Medical Dental Medicine Publishing Co. Ltd. 1976. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 7,500 Yen Medical Dental Medicine Publishing Co., Ltd. paperback
19315466London. Walter Perry and Co. Ltd. 1931. Gilt titled crimson cloth. 4to. Edition for 1931. Profusely illustrated with photographs drawings and period advertisements. An absolute treasure depicting the grand and elegant days of travel. A complete guide to Hotels and boarding houses in Great Britain Europe Australia New Zealand South Africa Canada and the USA. Charming period advertising allows one to travel back to the heady romantic days of Somerset Maugham and the Orient Express. Indexed and tabbed this is a true gem of nostalgia. A Very Good copy Walter Perry and Co. Ltd. hardcover
8251808537.Grag_book. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
192554342Philadelphia PA: Otto F. Schumann Philadelphia Textile School ca. 1925. Small 4to. 8.25 x 9.2 in. 75 leaves unnumbered including 32 leaves with detailed colour charts on weave formations producing various kinds of cloth 3 tipped-in textile samples together w/ weaving instructions in manuscript. Original limp leather 3-ring binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover ink lettering & association of Otto F. Schumann on front cover some soiling dustsoiling edgewear still VG exemplar. This Jazz Age weaving manuscript notebook complete with weave formation design plates fabric samples and instructions offer a remarkable and invaluable artifact of how a young American textile designer and weaver received training at the famed Philadelphia Textile School now Philadelphia University during the 1920s. These course books were judged on completeness and the aspiring weaver’s skill in presenting the details about the instruction as well as their abilities in running the machinery required to produce the cloth. This manuscript notebook includes Schumann’s detailed plates and notes on producing color effect on the plain weave creating Broken Twills Crowfoot Satins Checked & Figured Broken Twills Entwining Twills Basket Weaves and Broken Satins. The extensive manuscript notes detail the loom instructions how many lines are required composition and more in producing the assorted effects. Because of the poor quality of United States textiles exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 the Philadelphia Textile Manufacturers pushed for a formalized vocational school to train weavers designers and textile workers. In 1884 it became part of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art with 81 students enrolled by 1885 and by 1894 the School of Textiles added a Department of Wool Carding & Spinning and a Department of Cloth Finishing and Design. By the 1920s the Philadelphia Textile School was offering extensive three-year textile courses chemistry and dyeing courses as well as design courses in cottons woolens worsteds silks Jacquard design and more. Schumann 1906-1967 was the son of Hugo Schumann founder and owner of the Maid Hosiery Mills in Reading PA through the opening decades of the 20th century for whom he worked with until after World War II as designer and sales executive. Otto F. Schumann, Philadelphia Textile School, hardcover
19852090202118202648Fukutakeshoten 1985. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Fukutakeshoten paperback
6174LONG ISLAND. This scrapbook displays photographs taken between 1887-1889 that capture a wealthy familys life on Long Island during the Gilded Age. The term The Gilded Age created by Mark Twain refers to the period of the late nineteenth century typically the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century during which rapid economic growth rapid industrialization and widespread European immigration primarily unskilled labor transformed the economies of the Northern and Western United States. According to the United States Census the era saw a real wage growth of 40% from 1860 to 1890 with the average annual wage per industrial worker including men women and children rising from $380 in 1880 $11523 in 2022 dollars to $584 in 1890 $18370 in 2022 dollars a gain of 59%. This rise in wealth resulted in the rise of a New Money elite those who made their money not through generational wealth and family connections but rather through oil the railroads and other rising industries. They are best exemplified by John D. Rockefeller Jay Gould Henry Clay Frick Andrew Mellon Andrew Carnegie Henry Flagler J. P. Morgan Leland Stanford and Cornelius Vanderbilt. New York was often at the center of the Gilded Age as the worlds dominant financial market and the nations leader in economic investment immigration political corruption and culture. This scrapbook contains 59 black-and-white photographs. They are affixed or mounted to 43 of 70 pages in the album. 29 of the photographs are 3.5 x 4.5 19 are 6.5 x 4.5 and 11 are 5.5 x 7.5. Two of these images are cyanotypes. Though the family is not named in the album and photographs with names underneath lead to nothing online there is a photograph in front of a house labeled Westbrook. The Westbrook estate on Long Island was designed in 1886 for William Bayard Cutting 18501912 by the architect Charles C. Haight in the Tudor Revival style. It contained the first private golf course in the United States and is now a part of a state park called the Bayard-Cutting Arboretum. Cutting started the sugar beet industry in the United States in 1888 was a builder of railroads operated the ferries of New York City his maternal grandfather was a partner of Robert Fulton and developed part of the south Brooklyn waterfront Red Hook. Images include a large extended family repeatedly and leisurely photographed the Harvard-Yale sailing race in 1887 at New London young men likely Yale students yachting and relaxing on a boat named the Princess and beautiful images of the scenery and waters of Long Island. Overall the album is in good shape. One photograph is damaged and several others have minor tears or chips. The scrapbook is half-leather and half-cloth so the spine is worn and the corners are rubbed and bumped. Regardless the scrapbook is a prize for anyone interested in this fascinating and relevant era in American history. It provides fantastic insight into the life of a wealthy Long Island family including what they did what they wore and how they presented themselves to each other and their neighbors. hardcover
2007H-434-554Ed. du CNRS 2007. Paperback. Good. Former library book. Edition 2007. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. Ed. du CNRS paperback
BN108489Ed. du CNRS. Softcover. Pigments et colorants de l'Antiquité et du Moyen Age <br/><br/>Pigments et colorants de l'Antiquité et du Moyen Age Ed. du CNRS paperback
19762110502150415265plastic swage 1976. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 plastic swage paperback
19752110502150415368plastic swage 1975. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 plastic swage paperback
19792110502150415174plastic swage 1979. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 plastic swage paperback
19742090502113717752Not Available 1974. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
0905355377.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1330322614.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19822110502150414026Heibonshuppan 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Heibonshuppan paperback
19842110502150414672magazine house 1984. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 magazine house paperback
19782090502113709336Not Available 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
168673 Las Palomas Orinda California. 30 June 1964. 34 lines of typed text on air mail letter on blue paper. In good condition lightly aged and worn. Addressed to Malcom at Paisley Renfrewshire. The letter discusses the fact that he has been 'rushed to death' his gratitude at Malcolm's letter 'Sometimes a writer gets a feeling that he's all alone in a vacuum with nobody listening to what he says.' Malcolm's 'project of a checklist' 'Unfortunately there is so much material - both in and out of the science fiction field - scattered in so many places that I myself lack copies of some things and don't even know what's become of others.' his family background Scandinavian without 'Scottish connections' and Scotland 'Never got any further north in the island than Edinburgh. Ah there was an evening! Anyone who thinks the Scots are a dour race should have been along with us!'. Concludes in the hope that he and his wife Karen 'will make it to London in 1965'. Malcolm's plans for a checklist do not appear to have materialised. 3 Las Palomas, Orinda, California. 30 June 1964. unknown
19332080502106903527Shanghai People's Book Office 1933. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shanghai People's Book Office paperback